Trousers-rack.



T. A. GLEARY. TROUSERS RACK. APPLICATION FILED MAE. a; 1910.

Patented May 24, 1910.

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THOMAS A. CLEARY, OF ESGANABA, MICHIGAN.

TROUSERS-RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 24, 1910.

Application filed March 3, 1910. Serial No. 547,147.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS A. OLEARY, a cltizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Escanaba, county of Delta, State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trousers- Itacks, of which the following is a specification.

The main objects of the present invention are to provide an improved article of furniture adapted to hold clothing, and more particularly to hold trousers and the like; to provide a clothing support of knock-down construction which can be easily shipped or transported, and can be set up by an unskilled workman; to provide adjustable supporting means for holding a plurality of trousers at their tops; to provide an article of furniture having trouser supporting means adapted for use in holding trousers of different width and thickness; and to provide other details of construction and arrangements of parts whereby the article of furniture is of general utility as a means for storing and displaying articles of clothing.

A specific construction embodying this invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of an article of furniture with portions broken away. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a resilient retaining strip. Fig. 3 is an end View of the same. Fig. & is a side elevation of a cooperating strip. Fig. 5 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of one of the inclined supporting members. Fig. 7 is a section through the same on the lines 1-1. Fig. 8 is an elevation of another inclined supporting member. Fig. 9 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 8.

In the construction shown, the article comprises a framework which can be taken down easily for transportation. This framework comprises inclined supporting memhere 1 and 2, each of which forms the top of a side or panel comprising uprights 3 and 4E detachably pinned to the inclined supporting member, and connected together by a pinned brace 5. The two opposed sides or panels are connected together by cross bars 6, 7 and 8, each having a tenon passing through one of the uprights and held in place by a removable dowel.

The inclined supporting member 1 is provided with a plurality of blind recesses 9, 10, 11, etc., arranged vertically in the side of the member. The opposite inclined supporting member 2 is provided with a plurality of recesses consisting of vertical open ings or slots 12. Adjacent to each of these openings 12 is a recess or opening 13 of irregular shape, somewhat like the letter E, and consisting of a transverse slot 1 1, and a longitudinal slot 15 and two vertical notches 16 and 17 The recesses in the two inclined supporting members serve as seats for the resilient strips used to engage the trousers or other articles of clothing held in the device.

The resilient strips 18 and 19 are arranged in pairs one above another, and serve as clamping means for trousers 20 held Vertically, with the waist band projecting above the resilient strips. One strip of each pair is of the shape shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and has a notch 21 in the lower edge to serve as locking means to prevent the strip from slipping out through the slot 12. The other resilient strip 19 is of the shape shown in Figs. 4: and 5, and in addition to a notch 22 in the lower edge, is cut away at an upper corner to leave a projecting tongue 23.

hen a pair of trousers is to be clamped in the device, resilient strip 18 is slipped through slot 12 into the recess or socket 9, and is then dropped into position so that the notch 21 engages with the lower end of the slot 12. Then the resilient member 19 is slipped through the transverse opening 14 until its end is seated in recess 10 or in recess 11. Then its tongue 23 is swung along the longitudinal slot or passage 15 and seated either in the notch 16 or the notch 17, thereby tightly gripping the pair of trousers placed between the strips.

If the trousers are thin, the two strips should be near together and the strip 19 can be seated in socket 10 and notch 17, but if the trousers are thick and heavy, as when they are of corduroy, the strip 19 may be seated in socket 11 with its tongue 23 resting in notch 16.

Although but one specific embodiment of this invention is herein shown, it will be understood that numerous details'of the construction shown may be altered or omitted without departing from the spirit of this invention.

I claim:

1. In an article of furniture, the combination of an inclined supporting member having a transverse slot and a longitudinal slot and vertical notches, a resilient retaining strip adapted to pass through said transverse slot and having a tongue adapted to seat in either of said vertical notches, means for retaining the other end of said resilient strip, and a second strip of resilient material removably seated in said inclined supporting member.

2. In an article of furniture, the combination of side panels, doweled cross-bars securing said panels together, said panels each having an inclined supporting member, blind recesses in one of said inclined members adapted to serve as seats for resilient retaining strips, the other of said inclined members having transverse slots and longitudinal slots and vertical notches, a pair of resilient retaining strips adapted to pass through said transverse slots, one of said strips having a tongue adapted to swing along one of said longitudinal slots to engage with one of said vertical notches.

3. In an article of furniture, a panel comprising standards, a brace for said standards and an inclined supporting member carried by said standards, a second panel, a plurality of cross bars detachably connected to said panels, one of said inclined supporting members having a plurality of vertical recesses, the other of said inclined supporting members having openings there-through, a resilient strip having an end seated in one of said recesses and a notched end fitting in one of said openings, and a second resilient strip having an end seated in a recess and having a tongue at its other end, said tongue being movable with respect to the adjacent supporting member to increase or decrease the distance between said resilient strips.

4. A trouser rack comprising a pair of parallel supporting members and a series of pairs of clamping strips extending transversely between said supporting members and carried thereby, a plurality of groups of seats in said supporting members, there being one group for each pair of strips and the seats in each group being arranged so as to permit the strips of the res ective pair to be relatively adjusted towar and away from the other whereby each pair of said strips is adapted to clamp and support garments of varying thicknesses.

5. A trouser rack comprising a pair of parallel supporting members, and a series of pairs of strips extending transversely between said members and carried thereby, each of said members having therein recesses for removably supporting one of the strips of each pair, said removable strips being of reduced size at one end and said recesses at said end being arranged in groups with transverse slots connecting them whereby said reduced parts may be shifted along said transverse slots to different recesses for adjusting said strips relatively of each other.

6. A trouser rack comprising a pair of parallel supporting members, and a series of pairs of strips extending transversely between said members and carried thereby, each of said members having therein re- I cesses for removably supporting one of the strips of each pair, said removable strips being of reduced size at one end and said recesses at said end being arranged in groups with transverse slots connecting them whereby said reduced parts may be shifted along said transverse slots to different recesses for adjusting said strips relatively of each other, and one of the recesses in each group being of enlarged size to permit said removable strips to be independently withdrawn. Signed at Escanaba, this 28th day of February 1910.

THOMAS A. OLEARY. lVitnesses:

GEORGE E. J oHNsoN, ANNA M. BURSOI-IINGER. 

